When Joe Weider first hooked up with Arnold Schwarzenegger, his company was taking in around $1 million a year. Not bad, but not the stuff of empires. A few years later, after an extraordinary partnership that inextricably linked the names Weider and Schwarzenegger in the public mind, that total had soared to $28 million annually, and eventually the empire was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Ben Weider was very open about what he and many in the industry felt was the reason. "It was Arnold who finally helped us overcome the gay thing," he said. "That's how my brother used him and it worked beautifully. Straight guys started buying our products and we never looked back."

It is not difficult to figure out why some gay men would be drawn to the spectacular bodybuilders. Physique magazines were arguably the most openly--and self-affirmingly--gay male publications available to a wide American audience. Many gay Americans, in fact, first discovered their sexuality by looking at these magazinesSource: The Governator, by Ian Halperin, p. 91-93 , Oct 12, 2010

arnold told a story the other day how franco used to sit down and push dodgy chimneys down with his legs like he was doing squats and once almost took a woman out standing below. Also Franco did most of the building while he was the skivvy.

A lesser-known fact of Arnold Schwarzenegger's life is that he was already a millionaire before he ever became a Hollywood action hero. Together with a friend he began a brick-laying business in 1968. Using successful marketing techniques coupled with an onset of high demand after an earthquake, the business proved successful. The profits from Schwarzenegger's brick-laying business were then invested in what would become a lucrative series of ever-growing business ventures; each supporting the next endeavor. This successful business savvy would make Schwarzenegger a millionaire by the age of 30.

I've met a lot of expert brickies and none of them got rich quick. There's more knowledge required than you might imagine to build even a basic single story brick house, which is why guys apprentice for years to become competent masons. It would be more believable if he claimed to bid jobs and subcontract the labor. But he and Franco personally laid the bricks? Please. There is no way that a guy with no background or training is going to go buy a mortar mixer and become a millionaire.

I don't doubt that they went out and botched a few jobs but the money obviously flowed in from another source.

A lesser-known fact of Arnold Schwarzenegger's life is that he was already a millionaire before he ever became a Hollywood action hero. Together with a friend he began a brick-laying business in 1968. Using successful marketing techniques coupled with an onset of high demand after an earthquake, the business proved successful. The profits from Schwarzenegger's brick-laying business were then invested in what would become a lucrative series of ever-growing business ventures; each supporting the next endeavor. This successful business savvy would make Schwarzenegger a millionaire by the age of 30.

arnold told a story the other day how franco used to sit down and push dodgy chimneys down with his legs like he was doing squats and once almost took a woman out standing below. Also Franco did most of the building while he was the skivvy.

Franco would kick over the chimney, then they would go up to the door and say "want us to fix ur chimney"